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Continue reading →: My Wishes for Adults on A Day When Children Are Back to SchoolThe excitement of a new school year is still with me, long after the school experience itself. But my wishes at the beginning of a new school year are different from those of a child: they are the wishes I have for adults.
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Continue reading →: See If You’ve Missed This Important Question about DehumanisationWe dehumanise ourselves by dehumanising others. But what if the opposite is also true: that we can’t fight dehumanisation with full force if we still haven’t identified all the ways we dehumanise ourselves?
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Continue reading →: What The World with Israel in It Looks Like – And Why It’s OK for Our Nervous Systems Not to Be OKI hope it is something you can address with your therapists, friends, or online community at least: that if you are aware of how this world has been, your nervous system can’t be doing too well. And as long as we live in a world where fascist regimes like Israel…
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Continue reading →: When There’s an Opening of The Heart, But The Ones in Power Are Preaching DestructionThere is a saying that the cracks in the heart is where the light comes through. I also think it’s from where that light also shines. In my essay, I invite you to protect your hearts in this time of mass destruction; to engage in antiwar activities; to save your…
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Continue reading →: If You Reject Gaslighting in Your Personal Life, Reject It When It Comes as War Propaganda, TooWe can call it war propaganda (as we should), but we can also use another rather popular concept: gaslighting. This is what is being done to us on a global scale, as the U.S.-Israel war on Iran is being waged. That’s why, if you’re feeling that you might be losing…
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Continue reading →: Protect Your Kindness: Don’t Be a Safe Space for Those Who Preach SupremacyWe don’t expand our humanity by bowing down to those who preach their own supremacy. We only lose it. Therefore, I invite you to protect it.
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Continue reading →: On Fascist Regimes, The Heaviness of Interconnectedness, And Living Standing UpWith fascism on the rise, I share an extended metaphor with you that might be a reminder you were looking for. To keep on going, to keep on speaking out, and to keep on showing up for what matters.
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Continue reading →: How Do We Choose to Operate in Times of Fascism?Fascism has never been a thing of the past; now, to disregard it means to disengage from reality. As international law has crumbled, Israel is still destroying Gaza, and masked agents are snatching people of the streets in the U.S., I invite you to ask yourself how you choose to…
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Continue reading →: On A Different Kind of FeastIn addition to the small lies, there are definitely the big ones. This short blog posts is about one of them — or, rather, about a type of inquiry you might want to make time for this end of year.
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Continue reading →: The Fires, The Multiple Fires“Let everything burn, except your desire to fight” – my year started with this writing that I saw in a beautiful graffiti project. It turns out, no matter how lovely this metaphor, the process itself can be quite heavy. And if your end of year doesn’t feel necessarily light, my…
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